Learn Kanji in 45 minutes – How to Read and Write Japanese
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Learning kanji can either be the most frustrating work of your life, or it can be a fascinating and fun journey! The key to making kanji an enjoyable experience is to learn the meaning and origin of the kanji radicals that build all kanji characters.
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so to learn kanji you have to remember what it means, how to write it, and how it is pronounced…simple enough I shall be fluent in Japanese by 2074
Did you become fluent yet?
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No. To learn kanji, you have to learn what each of the RADICALS mean, how to write them, how to combine them into a valid kanji character, how to pronounce them at least two ways, and then what the meaning of the words you’re pronouncing are. For example: mouth + ten + legs + sun = shoe, because if you break it down, mouth + legs = older brother, older brother + ten = propane (because he’s so old when multiplied by ten that he’s a fossil fuel), and propane + sun = shoe because if you’re using propane in the sun, you’re probably barbecuing, in which case you’d be wearing shoes! See? It makes perfect sense! I think you’ll get it by 2073 at the very latest…
u fluent yet?
@Hans Chien so what about “electric car” and “car showroom”?
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This is crazy ! Good bye to learning Japanese
Install bible
Japanese bible App
Bosnian bible App
Thanl youu
Hello there which one is necessary? On-reading or Kun-reading?
Learning Japanese be like:
“This radical means dragon. And The kanji next to it means shoe. Together, they mean pancake.”
MY BRAIN HURTS
Maybe dragon likes to eat pancakes while wearing shoes
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huh? Characters are actually formed based on 6 basic rules when Cangjie, the one who is considered the inventor of Chinese characters, invented these characters, so I know you are trying to be funny, but the thing that you said won’t happen. Radicals in Chinese generally limit the properties of the characters, whether it means a kind of metal, food, herbal, etc., and the other part generally shows you the pronunciation or gives you more details of the meaning. As time goes by, limited characters seem like not enough anymore, so one character then started to represent different meanings when it combines with another one or more characters, in this case, new words are formed. Before that, when new things appear, people would invent a new character to represent that. That is why we have a lot of single characters representing all different kinds of horses…… Then people thought this way was too complicated, so they started to use adjectives + nouns to form new words instead of inventing new characters. Funny story, the last Chinese character invented is 熵, which means entropy in thermodynamics.
We learn kanji in elementary school for 6 years with a sponge brain, still sometimes we search the characters that we don’t know or forget how to write or read. There is even a quiz show that guesses how to read kanji.
I want to say to all you guys who study japanese just keep it up, but I think it’s best to learn step by step while having fun.
I want to talk to you guys in Japanese someday!
Greetings from Japan!!
ありがとうございます！
@J Watson If you or anyone else reading this that havent figured it out yet and are still learning japanese… for windows 10 you can type in “language settings” in the bottom left search bar and then click on add a language in the preferred languages section. There you can install the japanese language system. I dont remember how to configure it in the top of my head… but after you install it you can switch japanese to english (and vice versa) by pressing (windows key + spacebar) together. When on japanese, you can make hiragana and katakana letters by sounding it out how you would with English keys on keyboard. It even has kanji automatic dictionary if you want to learn like that as well. Hope this helped!
@G P .. hey cool i have your letters (G P) in my name! I am learning japanes i hope to talk to you soon in japan hehe
Same to you :3
Ohayou!
I started learning Japanese almost a year ago… and really, the farther you come, the easier it gets. You start noticing patterns in Kanji, which makes it easier to remember them.
My tip for new learners would be: write the characters down, and multiple times. I only started doing that recently – it really helps!
That’s true of anything you learn, but only up to a certain point with Kanji, you’ll get confused with the strokes as you learn more characters. To write in Kanji without computer keyboard assistance, it takes many many years of hard work.
Is it important to learn kanji to live in Japan? I’ve been thinking about moving there for uni and living there.
yes, I agree. I used apps to memorize hiragana, but afterwards I also started practicing my handwriting by rewriting the same letters over and over again. I wrote each letter a few hundred times. afterwards, I chose random Japanese sentences in romanji and translated them into hiragana as fast as I could. if you spend enough time doing this, it becomes second nature. I haven’t gone that far with kanji yet, but I have made a notebook for vocabulary, one for radicals, and flashcards for kanji. I practice each new radical and kanji I learn 5-10 times just to ensure that my muscle memory remembers each symbol a little better, and each kanji looks neater and is more easily written than before.
Learn the character’s etymologies.
Thank you it really helped ^_^
I am Japanese. (I’m using translation.)
Kanji practice is still easier when you learn the radicals.
When I was little, I was not good at kanji either, but once I learned the radicals and their meanings, it became easier to study them. Please try your best, even if it’s just little by little! Japanese is fun.
P.S. Japanese anime and manga are also great.
@Deroc I’m trying to test what i just learned from the video with your comments and I’m failing ?
ありがとう, アニメやマンガは有用. 本！
アニメと漫画が一番大切ものですよ
@Déjàvu そう言ってもらえて嬉しいです！こちらこそありがとう。
はい！日本語は楽しいです！ありがとう。
I appreciate how they try to explain the meanings of kanji as if they make sense
Stolen from another commenter
“This radical means dragon”
“This radical means shoe”
“Now you see, japanese people used to jerk off dragons instead of milking cows in the ancient era, so the kanji means pancake”
I guess I’m odd, it all clicks well and I have good imagery memory ?♂️
just approach it lightly and try to have fun
youll have a shitty experience trying to learn otherwise
Just what I was thinking lol
Rewatching this after almost a year of learning Japanese and now memorizes about 450 kanji?
THANK YOU FOR THIS! ONE DAY I WILL ALSO COME BACK HERE 🙂 (01.16.23)
@Awembawe awembawe But that’s what you do: rushing it (a little bit)!
Holy bee. That’s impressive!
thanks for your comment bro , it’s a big help , I’m starting to feel giving up , I memorize katakana And hiragana in 1 day but this kanji built diff ? I’m starting to lose hope , thanks for this
@Soywho hey, how is your learning journey? It has been 6 months since you comment on this video. I want to know how you learn.
4:42 person
10:40 human legs
14:46 ten
19:07 mouth
22:56 one
26:28 word
31:24 day
35:20 movement
39:08 gate
Kanji can be difficult at first. But it gets wayyyyy easier as you go on. It’s a great skill to learn. 🙂
No, it doesn’t get any easier. In fact, you get confused with the strokes and radical as you learn more characters. It takes many many years to truly master it.
For anyone learning Kanji right now or Chinese characters, its best to learn them through memory and making up a story. This video is really teaching you one thing, making a memory or a story behind each Kanji. When they claim Person and Tree is rest, its their way of memorizing the Kanji as rest. What I mean by that is, if that Kanji meant “to lean”, you would have just remembered it as a person leaning on a tree. To Lean. Its all imaginative. That’s the key take way here.
46 symbols (Hiragana) = learn in 1 hour
46 symbols (Katakana) = learn in 1 hour
over 2k symbols (Kanji) = learn in 45 minutes
Maybe for you, but not for me. It is going to take a while for me even after watching all the videos on youtube.
@YouNeverWalkAlone that’s really good ?you’ll eventually get there❤
Tell me about it….
@Pallavi S English entered the chat*
@YouNeverWalkAlone That’s cool. I’ve been learning for like 5-6 months but mostly in the past few months and mine’s also getting to the point where I can atleast say basic stuff
It doesn’t take as long as they suggest. In Japan they learn them all throughout primary and secondary school, but a motivated self-learner usually exceeds the capacity for learning that’s required in school by a large margin. It is very possible to crank them all out in 2-4 months if you have enough caffeine.
They are in the environment of their language. We call that immersion, like a fish is immersed in water. It is wet all the time.
I am native Chinese speaker. “儿” the meaning relates to “son”.or “child”. If you see “女儿” it means daughter, and “儿子” means “Son”. Of course when “儿” combines with other characters the meaning changes. For example, there is word “儿时”，the meaning is “ when I was young”. It is easy to memorize the meaning because “儿” related to “young person”, and “时” means time. The combination becomes “ when I was young. As you learn more characters it becomes easier as each character has its own meaning and words are linked together
Hello future me, this is my first time learning kanji, did i improve? Can u speak fluently now? I hope so ☺️
@Yuna you good
Dec. 12, 2022 12:27am. (Edited) In the bedroom rn ?
Finally an explanation for reading kanji! I always wondered how it worked. It always baffled me how Japanese people could read a kanji they’ve never or hardly seen and understand it’s meaning. The radical system makes so much sense! Yay no longer in the dark! Excited to learn Kanji now that I know how it works! ?
Glyphs are all around us, long before computer icons,
Stop sign.
Traffic signs.
McDonalds
Burger King
Taco Bell (it’s a bell)
Pizza Hut
Roy Rogers
Big Boy
Buffalo Wild Wings
Chili’s
Wendy’s (that’s the picture of Wendy, the founder’s daughter)
etc . . .
You still as optimistic as this?? ?
ありがとうございました！
Kanji is hard for me to grasp and I’m kinda thinking of giving up sometimes. But I’ve come this far. I’ve already learned hiragana and katakana, and I have already bought reference books and study materials. And I still have my passion in learning this language. To anyone who’s feeling the same, let’s not give up and try and try until we succeed. It might take long before we master some phrases, characters, or words, but atleast we tried, and we’re still trying. Ganbatte! ❤️
And thanks for Japanesepod101 for the free and fun lessons! Their videos are so helpful and enjoyable that it helps me maintain my will to study. Arigatou gozaimasu! ??♀️
Congratulations on learning hiragana and katakana, It must’ve been tough and you did a great job. Now prepare for everlasting pain.
ouch
Im still endeavoring to even learn katakana, man my sincere salutations to those who can actually read kanji
Safety is an illlusion, Suffering is enternal
I just started hiragana…
I’m going in boys
This really feels alot like going to an art museum and learning how to read abstract paintings and decyphering what the painter was thinking at the time
That is so correct. The glyphs started out as 1 to 1 drawing representations. Then the drawings become abstracted. Perfect explanation.
Exactly.